Welcome to Day Fourteen of the 31 Days of Organizing Tips series! I'm so glad you've joined me. Throughout this series I'll be sharing organizing ideas that I've found around the web that I love and that will help you on your journey from overwhelmed to organized. You'll find a complete list of all the posts in the 31 Days of Organizing Tips tab above, or at the end of this post.
{Note: Are you getting overwhelmed with all the amazing ideas in all the various 31 Days series? I know I'm finding it hard to keep up with all the ones I want to follow. If you're finding that too, please know that I do not want to overwhelm you in any way with this series!! These tips will always be here and you can come back to them whenever you want to work on any of these organizing ideas. :) I'm making a plan to catch up with some of my favourite series in November!}
Today's tip is to help you organize your laundry room. Whether you have an actual room, or a closet, or part of a hallway, or just a corner of your basement, there are a few things you can do to help keep your laundry area organized.
No one really enjoys doing laundry (if you do, then please share your secret!). It's one of those tasks that is never really done, so it can feel overwhelming sometimes. But keeping your laundry room organized can save you time. And doing a few things to make your space look nice may keep you from letting messy piles of laundry build up or least make you smile a little when you're tackling them :)
Here are a few of my favourite laundry rooms I've seen online and some tips you can incorporate into your laundry area:
1. Susan at Achieving Creative Order recently completed a beautiful makeover of her laundry room. You can check out all her posts about it here. I encourage you to check them out because there are just too many amazing pictures to show here :) Susan incorporated so many organizational details into her new laundry room including folding space, cupboard space, drawer space, and basket space. Plus, she added several really beautiful touches to make it pretty. I love it and it would totally make me happier when I'm doing laundry!
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| Laundry Room Before and After |
2. If you have a hard time remembering to keeping clothing items out of the dryer, here's a handy little tip for using a dry erase marker so you don't forget!
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| Washer Trick |
3. If your washer and dryer are in a closet, here's a great idea for being able to store laundry baskets that are still easily accessible. Danielle at Hold Onto Your Hat converted her horizontal shelf into an angled shelf.
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| Laundry Closet |
4. It's great to have a place to hang clothes that are dry. Here's a creative way that Bec from Little Lucy Lu created a hanging space in her laundry room using a ladder (click the link below the picture for a full tutorial). I love it!
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| Ladder Laundry Rack |
5. Baskets with labels will help you group like items together. Leanne at Organize and Decorate Everything has made great use of the vertical height in her laundry closet! She also shows some of the touches she added to make her laundry space pretty. {I love the little clothes pins hanger for missing socks!}
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| Laundry Room Revisited |
6. And last, by not least, here's a look at Becky from Organizing Made Fun's laundry room. I love that it's a "normal" laundry room, and she received a lot of comments to that effect, so clearly there are a lot of us out there who do not have dream laundry rooms :) Click the link to her post (below the picture) because Becky explains her laundry "system" as well as her DIY laundry soap and softeners. Organizing how and when you do your laundry is just as important as how you organize your laundry room and it can really save you a lot of time.
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| Laundry Day with OMF |
{Note: there are a TON of "recipes" for DIY cleaners. I shared the DIY laundry detergent I use here. If you're looking for more ideas, I have some on my Cleaning & Cleaning Supplies board on Pinterest.}
For Day Fourteen, organize your laundry area. If that feels overwhelming, start by organizing how and when you do laundry and then think about one idea from this post that you could implement that would make your laundry system better. Put that tip into action and then come back another time to add another. One step at a time!
Tomorrow we'll continue looking at tips for organizing various spaces in your home.
And just a reminder that as the series progresses, I'll be sharing tips for various organizing challenges. Feel free to leave a comment with any particular areas you'd like me to cover. I look forward to going through this series with you and hearing your tips too!
How do you organize your laundry room? What's the best organizing tip you've implemented?
Have a great day and happy organizing!
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